The corpus record — Latin

haemorrhoida

haemorrhoida · f

the piles

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

haemorrhŏĭda — Lewis & Short

haemorrhŏĭda, ae, f. (discharging blood; written as Greek, ai(morroi+/s,

Cels. 6, 18, 9).

I In medic., the piles, hemorrhoids, Plin. 23, 7, 71, § 137; Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 1, 2; Amm. 30, 6, 5.

In the wild

haemorrhoidas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.5.p6
haemorrhoida Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.1.p7
haemorrhoidas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.6.p3
haemorrhoidas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.11.p10
haemorrhoidas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.3.p2
haemorrhoidas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p22

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.